Re: Using ISC-licensed code in a LGPL2 file

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:39:33PM +0100, Frank Roscher wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> 
> I've ported code from an application called EasyStroke to KHotkeys. Now, I don't want to commit this before making sure this won't cause any licensing problems in the future.
> 
> The relevant file of KHotkeys is LGPL2, EasyStroke is under the ISC license:
> http://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/tree/master/LICENSE?raw=true
> The author of EasyStroke gave me explicit permission to do this (being informed about the licenses), but I don't know if that is enough for the KDE project.

This is an X11/MIT style licence which is fine for KDE.

http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#X11_License

Any files which you add this code to should have a header along the
lines of

"This file includes code from EasyStroke, Copyright (c) 2008-2009,
Thomas Jaeger <[email protected]>"

Then paste the rest of
http://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/blob/master/LICENSE?raw=true


Jonathan